ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF ONTARIO. 



Director on the Council for many years. He wag a diligent and enthusiastic collector in 

 the order Lepidopbera and gathered together large stores of specimens, most of which are 

 now in the museum of the Geological Survey at Ottawa. His untimely death is a 

 source of deep grief to his colleagues and to a large circle of relatives and friends 

 throughout the Dominion. 



The Council desire further to tender their respectful sympathy to Miss Eleanor A. 

 Ormerod, of Torrington House, St. Alban's, England, in her bereavement owing to the 

 death of her sister and life-long colleague and companion, Miss Georgiana Elizabeth 

 Ormerod, who died on the 19th of August last, after an illness of several months 

 duration. The deceased lady was remarkable for her many talents and acquirements as 

 a botanist, a conchologist, an artist, and a linguist, and for her great benevolence and 

 generosity. She assisted her sister very greatly by illustrating her publications, helping 

 in her correspondence and by her unfailing encouragement and wise counsels. She is 

 widely known especially by the series of large coloured diagrams of injurious insects that 

 she published under the auspices of the Royal Agricultural Society of England, and 

 which are found to be of great practical use in illustrating lectures and addresses in this 

 country as-well as in Great Britain. 



All of which is respectfully submitted. 



J. W. Dearness, 



President. 



Mr. W. E. Saunders presented and read the report of the Secretary. 

 REPORT OF THE SECRETARY OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY 



FOR THE TEAR 1895-6. 



The year 1895-6 has been one of unusual activity to the local members of the coun- 

 cil into whose hands the conduct of affairs at the Society's headquarters is placed, but 

 the labors of the Secretary have been reduced to a minimum by the kind and efficient 

 work done by the Librarian and Curator, who has attended to almost all of the work 

 which might otherwise have fallen upon the Secretary. During the early part of the year 

 the council issued a leaflet setting forth the advantage and usefulness of membership in 

 the Society ; the said leaflet being for the purpose of enclosure in the correspondence 

 of the members and it is hoped that the influence of the Society will be widened thereby. 



Seven council meetings have been called during the year, and three consultation 

 meetings, to which all the local members were invited ; for the conduct of business in 

 general, and more especially for that relating to the change of rooms. 



The negotiations which had begun at the time cf the last annual meeting with the 

 Young Men's Christian Association of this city, for the lease of a room in their new 

 building, have continued throughout the year and have about reached a favorable conclu- 

 sion, so that unless a bitch occurs, the Society should be occupying the proposed new 

 room in three or four weeks. 



The routine work of the Society has proceeded as usual, the meetings of the sections 

 having been regular, except the Ornithological section which did not meet during the 

 year. Particulars of the work of the other sections will be given in the reports by their 

 Secretaries. 



Some correspondence has taken place with those in charge of the meeting in Canada 

 of the British Association in which the Secretary has been authorized to pledge the good- 

 will and hospitaliy of the Siciety to the visiting members, but the matter of representa- 

 tion at the meeting has been left for the general council to settle at the annual meet- 

 ing. 



All of which is respectfully submitted, 



W. E. Saunders, 



Secretary. 



